On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> wrote: > > Am 18.10.2011 um 10:55 schrieb Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de>: > >> Am 18.10.2011 02:18, schrieb Alexander Graf: >>> We have several targets in the PPC tree now that basically require libfdt >>> to function properly, namely the pseries and the e500 targets. This >>> dependency >>> will rather increase than decrease in the future, so I want to make sure >>> that people building shiny new 1.0 actually have libfdt installed to get >>> rid of a few ifdefs in the code. >>> >>> Warning: This patch will likely make configure fail for people who don't >>> select their own --target-list, but don't have libfdt development packages >>> installed. However, we really need this new dependency to move on. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <ag...@suse.de> >> >> openSUSE 12.1 has libfdt1-devel, but you should set up a submodule and >> working build rules for Darwin, Haiku, etc. `make` doesn't fully work so >> I used custom scripts to build the right parts and to manually "install" >> the resulting binary and headers. > > I don't fully understand. It's a build dependency, so whoever maintains > libfdt / is interested in running ppc targets on those OSs needs to fix > libfdt to build there. > > It's really the same as a dependency on glib or sdl or ... :). It's just less > well known (and less active as a project).
It's not available on Ubuntu or Debian and I doubt that compiled packages are available for OSX or Windows. OpenBSD does not have it in the ports. So I'd use submodule approach.
